Ncc: 90 Million Subscribers Executed 110 Million Registration
Despite the huge amount of money released to perform a successful registration of all SIM cards holders in Nigeria, it seems the whole operation was just one of the numerous ways of scientific looting.Eyewithness account shows that the entire process was marred by irregularites and multiple registraton, the figures release by NCC confrims that 110.43 million lines have so far been registered while the offical figures of active mobile lines in the country stands at 95,886,714. This is definitely a massive blow to the commission and how they go about in providing a remedy to this fiasco will go a long way in redeeming the commission’s image. Meanwhile, this is what the Executive Vice-Chairman Dr. Eugene Juwah had to say on the issue.
“As we speak, we have a combined registration of 110,433,976 of mobile SIM cards that have been registered and the data is going to go through processing and cleaning at the NCC. The registration was variously carried out by the NCC contractors and the network operators.
We are shortly going to begin verification of the SIMs before a number can be said to be duly registered. With the country’s telephone penetration standing at 95,886,714 lines, there is already clear evidence of multiple registrations. These will be eliminated to create a database of integrity and credibility.
As the exercise comes to a close, subscribers whose SIM cards are not registered will be deemed not to be interested in the process or that the SIM cards have been abandoned and will be disconnected,”
We didn’t expect anything less than this statement or did you? After every failure on the part of any government agency, there is always a well written speech.
